All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union has demanded that Dr. Kekhrielhoulie Yhome withdraw remarks alleging Hindi teachers were recklessly appointed in Nagaland.
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DIMAPUR — The All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union (ANHTU) has strongly objected to remarks made in the media by Advisor for School Education and SCERT Dr. Kekhrielhoulie Yhome alleging that Hindi teachers were “recklessly appointed” and that some do not even know how to read Hindi.
In a press release issued on Tuesday, the union demanded that the advisor immediately withdraw the statement, saying it has deeply hurt the sentiments of Hindi teachers across the state.
The union said Dr. Yhome had stated in the media that many Hindi teachers were appointed from private institutions not recognised by the Government of India or the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), and that some teachers “do not even know how to read any Hindi text.”
Rejecting the allegation, the ANHTU said Hindi teachers were appointed through open advertisements and a selection process involving written examinations, oral interviews and document verification.
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It also pointed out that the National Council for Teacher Education Act was enacted in 1993 and amended in 2009, but NCTE provisions were implemented in Nagaland only in 2017.
According to the union, the School Education department issued an advertisement on January 10, 2012 inviting applications to fill 1,379 non-gazetted posts. It said 394 posts remained vacant due to shortage of eligible candidates, after which another advertisement was issued on August 13, 2012 to fill the backlog.
The union added that another recruitment notification dated June 19, 2014 invited applications to fill 41 graduate and 72 undergraduate Hindi teacher posts against vacancies arising from retirement, death and promotion.
It further stated that Hindi teachers were earlier recruited through the Nagaland Public Service Commission in 2005–2006, after which recruitment was handled by the department. Since the establishment of the Nagaland Staff Selection Board in 2020, vacant posts have been requisitioned to the board.
The union also maintained that private Hindi institutions are recognised under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
Urging the advisor to withdraw the remarks, the union said it was “quite disheartening” for teachers who had qualified through competitive examinations to hear that they were incapable of reading Hindi or were “destroying our children.”